The two Muslim converts who hacked British soldier Lee Rigby to death in broad daylight were today found guilty of his murder.

However just as in the case with Major Nidal Hasan and the classification of his crime as “workplace violence,” British leaders just cannot bring themselves to call this what it is: Islamic jihadism and home-grown Muslim terrorism — as both of these animals were converts.

Instead, Prime Minister David Cameron said the nation had to confront the “poisonous narrative of the extremism.”

The distraught family of Lee Rigby left court in tears today as one of his remorseless killers smiled and kissed the Koran after he was found guilty of his murder.

Muslim fanatic Michael Adebolajo, 28, made the incendiary gesture to the Old Bailey courtroom before he was taken down to the cells by prison guards. Fusilier Rigby, 25, was ‘mutilated, almost decapitated and murdered’ by Michael Adebowale, 22, and Adebolajo, who ambushed him outside his barracks in Woolwich, South East London on May 22.

We all recall the absolute heinous and barbaric attack by converted followers of the “religion of peace” who targeted Fusilier Rigby as he walked back to his barracks, ran him down in their car and then proceeded to mercilessly hack him to death.

We watched the video of one of the jihadists as he explained why they committed the horrendous act, with Rigby’s blood on his hands and clothing. Adebolajo had admitted they executed the father-of-one but claimed they were not murderers because they are ‘soldiers of Allah’ at ‘war’ with Britain over its foreign policy.

The Daily Mail detailed horrific accounts of the attack:

“Witnesses to his death said Muslim convert Adebolajo had held the British soldier by the hair and tried to hack off his head ‘like a butcher attacking a joint of meat’. The father-of-one, 25, almost had his head sliced off when his ‘motionless’ body was attacked in a ‘cowardly and callous’ execution. One bystander said Adebolajo had ‘pure evil’ in his eyes as he hacked the 25-year-old soldier to death with a meat cleaver. Another described how the men behaved like ‘animals’ as they mutilated their victim.”

Western civilization — and America — needs principled, courageous, leaders with conviction, men and women who will not cower under the self-imposed homage to the gods of political correctness in confronting this clear and present danger: Islamic totalitarianism.

As I often say, “when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.”

I’m glad it took only 90 minutes for the jury to make its decision, but this case should not have taken so long to be brought to trial. Justice for these animals? Take them back to the barracks at Woolwich, lock the gates, and let Lee Rigby’s mates decide.

Yes, I believe Nidal Hasan should be taken back to Ft. Hood out to the maneuver training area with a group of selected Army marksmen. And to all the progressive apologists — have fun riding around with your “coexist” bumper stickers. I wonder if there was one on the car that these jihadists drove?

Meet Allen West

Allen West was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia in the same neighborhood where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once preached. He is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family.

During his 22 year career in the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones: in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was a Battalion Commander in the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and later in Afghanistan.